SUPERHOT is kind of like Quantum Leap, where you are suddenly put into a scenerio where everyone wants you dead. You're in an elevator when three men draw their guns on you. You find yourself in front of a speeding car. Instead of having a hologram of an aging playboy and his Lego-built pocket computer to help you, you instead have the ability to start and stop time - time only moves when you do.

The whole thing plays like a first-person puzzler, the puzzle being "how do I kill everyone in the room before they kill me?" Thanks to time only moving as you do, you can dodge bullets, catch disarmed weapons in mid-air and spin around to perforate the Red Guy behind you with the gun you just liberated from another enemy.

After you finish a run, the game replays your actions in real time, which often plays out like a choreographed action scene in the best of situations, and at its worst it looks more like someone who's running an aimhack program in an FPS. But where the replays can be hit-or-miss, the mechanics are consistently solid.

The main storyline is short, maybe a few hours of gameplay at best, but the addition of endless modes, challenge runs and such give the game a life far beyond the main game. The graphics are deliberately minimalistic, which serves the mechanics well. Where these two elements (game length, graphics) have been at the center of complaints for people, I think that the story is succint, the graphics suit the premise perfectly.

The only thing on my wishlist is a level editor - I'd love to see other action movie scenerios set up, and be given the opportunity to Jason Bourne my way out of them.